Fast Talk with Boy Abunda: Manny Jacinto shares his struggles as an actor in Hollywood (Episode 656)

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00:00how much Tagalog can you speak not much it was my first language but when we

00:12immigrated to Canada I kind of started to lose it a little bit but I can still

00:16understand like maraming salamat kumusta kumusta mahal kita or what else is

00:23there always food related yeah first Manny I'd like to say thank you for all that

00:36you are and all that you do for this country thank you for making all of us

00:41proud you're doing very well in Hollywood thank you and but first how I know you

00:48left when you're three years old mm-hmm did you ever come back between that time

00:53and now I I did what I I mean my whole dad side of the family is still here so

01:00whenever whenever there were maybe birthdays or if people passed away we

01:06would come back or the last time we were here was two Christmases ago I was able

01:12to bring my parents and also my wife's parents to the Philippines and and just

01:18explore and and because they they always you should come back to see family but

01:22I wanted to show them other parts of the Philippines as well will there be a

01:26reunion this time um not not this time not much time yeah not much time but

01:33hopefully hope maybe next year yes okay um everybody wants to know how what is it

01:40like to be a Hollywood actor oh a lot of rejection a lot of yeah a lot of rejection

01:52money what does it mean which meant that you had to go for additions with for

01:56readings and yeah you got a lot of no yeah I mean it's it's a pretty tough

02:01industry you know especially as a person of color whether you're Asian or

02:07Filipino in general it's it can be pretty tough but yeah there's a lot of

02:11rejection in auditions and casting choices and projects and you just have to

02:18keep on going I think I built a lot of work ethic from my parents because of

02:23their their work ethic and I just you know continue to strive on but you've

02:27done pretty well and let me ask you as a fan of movie stars you worked with Tom Cruise yeah worked

02:35with uh Nicole Kidman and our very own Dolly Deleone and nine perfect strangers yeah

02:40yeah Tom for um Top Gun yeah yeah Maverick yeah you did Star Wars the Acolyte you did my

02:48favorite the good place yeah the good place yes even a television series uh the

02:53good doctor I've I've seen a lot so how is it and Jamie Lee Curtis of course at

03:00Lindsay Lohan yes in Freak Your Friday yeah how do you survive them it's uh I I mean I come from a dance

03:10background so um you know without dance I wouldn't have been able to act I think

03:16that's the beauty of you know Filipinos we love to perform so we love to sing we

03:21love to dance we love to act um we have to do all these things and be in front of the camera and

03:26um I think seeing that within my culture I was like why not why not me right so I I gave it a try

03:32and um and here we are but it's it is a lot of work like it's a lot of preparation um a lot of being

03:39prepared for your lines or your scenes in general did you always want to be an actor no not really I uh it was

03:48my family you know they're mainly um in education you know I was I was really the first one kind of in

03:56the arts so I I had a lot of weird looks from you know some titos and titas and um my lolas and lolas but

04:05uh they were always very supportive um and uh they let me you know be free and and and explore dance

04:14and and the arts um and then it wasn't until much later that I found love did you train I did to

04:21be an actor yeah yeah uh I I I after I graduated from engineering it was full-on acting so taking

04:29classes um auditioning uh for for anything and everything that I could get whether it be plays

04:36or films and TV shows anything like that

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Fast Talk with Boy Abunda: Manny Jacinto shares his struggles as an actor in Hollywood (Episode 656)

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